diff --git a/src/helpviewer/helpviewer.pro b/src/helpviewer/helpviewer.pro
index 0f1f3843940..77b6d7e2b16 100644
--- a/src/helpviewer/helpviewer.pro
+++ b/src/helpviewer/helpviewer.pro
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ######################################################################
 # Automatically generated by qmake (1.06c) Sun Aug 21 15:43:14 2005
+#
+# NOTE: This pro file does not include settings.pro due to some
+# unknown conflict with the core libs resulting in inclusion of 
+# headers not needed to compile the help viewer
 ######################################################################
 MSYSBASE = c:\msys\local
 DESTDIR = ..\..\qgis-release